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What is a Vortex?

A vortex is an alternative bar or club which hardly appears on any tourist guides.

Entering the vortex usually ends with incredible adventures that you might or might
not want to remember for the rest of your lifetime.

Common signs of a vortex are
lack of mobile phone coverage, lack of people who speak any understandable language,
lack of credit card payment options, lack of air, lack of light and a lack of responsibility...

We were in 2 groups. The first one entered the bar 10 minutes before the second one. After 10 more minutes it was really obvious who had been in the first group and who was in the second. 10 extra minutes of drinking made such a difference in the soberness level of the participants!

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Experienced by
Toivo

Story added:
2855 days ago

This place is legendary in the purest sense of the word. Every time I end up here magical things start happening.

This is probably because of the recommended game of the bar. The rules are simple. Everyone drinks wine+water normally from their glasses. However, to ensure a stable level of drunkedness everyone must finish each glass at exactly the same time. This means that once some fast drinker finishes theirs, everyone must do a bottoms-up! The never-ending supply of good hungarian wine (~2€ for 1 liter) ensures that the empty glasses get automatically filled up again after that.

First time I was in this bar ended up in a total vortex. We left the place and went somewhere else where an other bartender chasing me out of his bar with a baseball bat. For some reason I thought I was in Poland and all the people around were my friends. I got lost in the city, but managed to find my way home again. Every other time I've been there has ended up in a similar vortex.

So... if you want crazy adventures in Budapest, this is the place to go!

3.
Experienced by
M.

Story added:
2855 days ago

We were three and we had one hour after which we were supposed to meet our local friends. We went in just for a glass of vine. It was fine for the first 12 minutes, but then the Spanish girl finished her glass and said "Bottoms up!". After one hour and 3 litres we decided that its a wise idea to tell our local friends to pick us up from here instead... It was not a wise idea.